many wages stagnating, will not go as far this year. there are fears the chinese capital may be lockdown. fears of a lockdown have prompted panic buying. here is our china correspondent. to tell the truth, things have kind of calm down today. following two days of panic buying which saw supermarkets here are filled with people buying food and other provisions, worried that the city was going to be lockdown in the city was going to be lockdown in the same way shanghai has been with all the food shortages and the like. i am not sure if it is because those inclined to stock up already had sufficient provisions or if people have been reassured by the relatively slow pace of infections here. but the panic buying has really slowed down today. the
on the tv and looking on the radar on the internet. it could save your life tonight. there could be severe weather. it s calming down as it usually does during the afternoon hours this is what didn t calm down today, this smoke. this is the fire, five fires new no colorado. they have burning acres and acres, thousands of acres in some spots well over 100 homes completely lost to the fires. the air is dry, trees are dry, many of the trees are dead. colorado pine beetle killed many of the trees. it hasn t rained in a couple years almost i know it has but what it needs to. that drought is part of the problem. thank you for that all encompassing report. i want to bring in the firefighter that became an internet hero when he rescued from the colorado fire.
wasn t long afterwards the highway patrol came to our home and told us we had about ten minutes. we had no idea the fire was moving that quickly or that close to our home. we gathered all of the necessary belongings, everything you would expect to gather, medicines and papers and our cat malcolm and we moved to the north, and i lingered there at the tree line about a mile and a half from my home, and we watched the plumes of smoke as the fire was rolling over the neighborhood. every time we saw a jet black from of smoke we knew that was a home going up and we saw that happen right about where our neighborhood was and that s about when we felt like we could be sure we lost our home. we had been there for 22 years. and ted, i mean, we see these scenes every summer in america and so many stories like yours. to actually go through it, to see your family home going up in flames, to see the neighborhood
it could save your life tonight. there could be severe weather. it s calming down as it usually does during the afternoon hours this is what didn t calm down today, this smoke. this is the fire, five fires new no colorado. they have burning acres and acres, thousands of acres in some spots well over 100 homes completely lost to the fires. the air is dry, trees are dry, many of the trees are dead. colora colorado pine beetle killed many of the trees. it hasn t rained in a couple years almost i know it has but what it needs to. that drought is part of the problem. thank you for that all encompassing report. i want to bring in the firefighter that became an internet hero when he rescued from the colorado fire. ted robertson lost his home in that fire. colby, all of america was touched and charmed by the images of you bringing out this
the fire and we my wife and i met at our property about 2:00 or 3:00 that afternoon and began to gather belongings and it wasn t long afterwards the highway patrol came to our home and told us we had about ten minutes. we had no idea the fire was moving that quickly or that close to our home. we gathered all of the necessary belongings, everything you would expect to gather, medicines and papers and our cat malcolm and we moved to the north, and i lingered there at the tree line about a mile and a half from my home, and we watched the plumes of smoke as the fire was rolling over the neighborhood. every time we saw a jet black plume of smoke, we knew that was a home going up and we saw that happen right about where our neighborhood was and that s about when we felt like we could be sure we lost our home.